The Wonder Sound

The New Childrenâ€™s Museum, six San Diego Community Centers and artist Wes Sam-Bruce have collaborated to create our largest and most immersive installation to date.
Drawing influence from tree houses, empowered neighborhoods, canyons at night, sacred plants, silhouetted mountain ranges in the distance, animals that have never been seen, original stories, forgotten histories, whispered languages, ancient footpaths, imaginary places and the human condition, The Wonder Sound is an entirely new and complex culture that blends fact and fiction, the tangible and the ephemeral. It is a work of art that you physically enter into and discover.
Part tree house, part village, part undiscovered world, The Wonder Sound invites you to explore through its many rooms and passageways, going from the real to the unreal, crossing the threshold from the known to the unknown, venturing from the wild to the familiar. Accompanied by an original/experimental soundscape by composer Joel P. West, the installation will take you to strange yet recognizable places.
You can learn to read, write and speak the original language created specifically for this project, to name the constellations and to speak the names of the ancestors.